Career Step has announced the release of five new training courses on the Microsoft Office 2007 suite including: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access. The courses range from 17 to 21 hours and can be purchased individually or as a bundle.

Microsoft may have years of practice in rolling out updates to PCs but, apparently, they didn’t realize smartphones were different. They’re now working to make the process smoother.

Auslogics Software has released version 3.2 of its disk defragmentation and optimization tool, Auslogics Disk Defrag. Auslogics Disk Defrag is free for personal use. It runs on Microsoft Windows 7/XP/Vista or 2003/2008, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Yesterday’s patches targeted security for Office 2003 and Office 2007 on Windows by adding Office File Validation (OVE) for the older file formats.

Most companies have a regular schedule of upgrading computers but, sometimes, the upgrades don’t seem to make it to users "in time". Many office workers have been tempted to take extreme measures to ensure they get a new machine.

The first preview version of Internet Explorer 10 was debuted at Microsoft’s Mix designer/developer show. IE 10 is expected to be released with Windows 8, sometime next year.

In his keynote talk at the Convergence conference, Steve Ballmer envisioned a world where Windows was on a variety of devices, not just PCs.

Bing maps will soon be including "Streetside" views. The first cars have started capturing images, but hopefully not Wi-Fi data, in London.

It’s taken more than a year, but finally, Win7 is on more machines than WinXP in the US.

Both Microsoft and Google offer online application suites. The two companies are vying for US government dollars to implement their solution for thousands of federal employees. So, the finger-pointing over security issues could get heated.